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3:45 PM ET, October 31, 2016

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Eric Holder / Washington Post:
James Comey is a good man, but he made a serious mistake  —  Eric Holder was U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015.  —  I began my career in the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section 40 years ago, investigating cases of official corruption.  In the years since …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Poll: Comey's bombshell changes few votes  —  The race for the White House is tight, but it has not been radically changed by the FBI director's bombshell announcement last week.  —  Hillary Clinton has a slim three-point lead over Donald Trump one week before Election Day …
Hillary Clinton 2016:
Open Letter from Former Federal Prosecutors and High-Ranking Officials of The U.S. Department of Justice  —  Sunday, as reported by the Associated Press, a group of nearly 100 former federal prosecutors and high-ranking DOJ officials from both Democratic and Republican administrations …
Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
The FBI Director's Unworthy Choice
Discussion: Politico and FOX News Radio
Mike Levine / ABC News:
What to Know About the New Clinton-Related Emails
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Raw Story
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump camp basks in Clinton's suffering
Discussion: ABC News, Hot Air and Guardian
Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile  —  CNN says it is “completely uncomfortable” with hacked emails showing that former contributor and interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile shared questions with the Clinton campaign before a debate and a town hall during the Democratic primary, and has accepted her resignation.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
CNN ‘uncomfortable’ with apparent leaks to Clinton campaign, cuts ties with Brazile  —  CNN is “completely uncomfortable” with a former contributor's relationship with the Hillary Clinton  —  campaign and has cut ties with Donna Brazile, a network spokesman said Monday.
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Trump: Thank You Anthony Weiner!  Good Job Huma!  —  At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Donald Trump comments on the latest twist in the Hillary Clinton email saga.  —  “Thank you, Huma,” he declared to Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin.  “Good job, Huma.”  —  To her husband he said: “Thank you, Anthony Weiner!”
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: How a 12-term congressman is trying to survive the Trump headwinds in Florida  —  THE BIG IDEA:  —  WINTER PARK, Florida—October has been full of surprises.  Donald Trump's 1995 tax records came out on the 1st of the month.  The video of the Republican nominee bragging …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Abedin tells colleagues she's in dark about new email trove  —  Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has told colleagues she was taken aback when she learned that the FBI found her emails on a laptop belonging to her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, and doesn't know how the messages got there …
Jugal K. Patel / New York Times:
Voting Early, and in Droves: Nearly 22 Million Ballots Are Already In  —  With nine days until the general election, almost 22 million people have already voted, through early voting and absentee ballots.  —  In many states, the number of early voters is lower than at the same point in the 2012 cycle.
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New York Times:
Early Turnout Tilts Toward Democrats in Swing States
Michael P. McDonald / The Huffington Post:
Early Voting Stability Despite News Volatility
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Daily Kos
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is refusing to pay his campaign pollster three-quarters of a million dollars  —  Donald Trump's hiring of pollster Tony Fabrizio in May was viewed as a sign that the real estate mogul was finally bringing seasoned operatives into his insurgent operation.
Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP'S COMPANIES DESTROYED EMAILS IN DEFIANCE OF COURT ORDERS  —  U.S. DONALD TRUMP 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HILLARY EMAILS  —  Over the course of decades, Donald Trump's companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Harry Reid's incendiary claim about ‘coordination’ between Donald Trump and Russia  —  In a letter to FBI Director James B. Comey on Sunday night, outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) says Comey may have broken the law.  —  And that's not even the most brazen claim in the letter — not by a long shot.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Reid: FBI has ‘explosive information’ about Trump, Russia
Discussion: Hot Air
CBS News:
Harry Reid accuses Comey of sitting on proof of Trump-Russia ties, possible Hatch Act violation
Discussion: AOL, CBS Philly and CANNONFIRE
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Deep Unfavorability for Clinton, Trump Marks the Election's Sharp Divisions (POLL)  —  Likely voters see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump equally unfavorably, with a nearly complete partisan split in views of the two — testament both to the unprecedented unpopularity of the candidates …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
NAACP Sues North Carolina Over Alleged Voter Purge Targeting Black Voters  —  The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, along with a handful of individual voters, sued the state's elections board and three county elections boards Monday over an alleged voter purge that it claims disproportionately affected African Americans.
Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  Indiana  —  Young Catches Up to Bayh for Senate; Trump Widens Lead for President  —  Democrat stays ahead in governor's race  —  West Long Branch, NJ - It no longer looks like Democrats can count on Indiana for an easy “plus one” …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Clinton's critics know she's guilty, they're just trying to decide what she's guilty of  —  The Prime Directive driving bad Clinton coverage.  —  The latest Hillary Clinton email revelations arose out of an unrelated investigation into Anthony Weiner's sexting.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Erin McCann / New York Times:
Theaters Open Doors for an Election Worthy of the Big Screen  —  The dramatic presidential campaign of 2016 has often felt like something beyond even Hollywood's wildest imagination.  —  So it seems fitting that when this two-year slog toward Election Day finally comes to its conclusion on Nov. 8 …
Discussion: Althouse
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Uber and Lyft Drivers  —  Researchers suggest anonymity for passengers hailing a ride as a possible solution.  —  Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men.
 
 
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Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Analysis: The Vengeful World of Donald Trump, and Why It Matters
Discussion: CNBC
Tegna / KENS:
Man dressed as Freddy Krueger shoots five at Halloween party
Discussion: Jezebel, Washington Post and WREG-TV
John W. Dean / New York Times:
No, ‘Emailgate’ Is Not Worse Than Watergate
Marvin G Perez / Bloomberg:
Coffee-Loving Millennials Push Demand to a Record
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Peter Thiel: 'What Trump represents isn't crazy and it's not going away'
 Earlier Items: 
Brent Griffiths / Politico:
Clinton campaign invokes ‘Daisy Girl’ to attack Trump on nuclear weapons
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
Melkorka Licea / New York Post:
Professor who tweeted against PC culture out at NYU
Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
It was not a good Halloween for Times Square characters
Discussion: Gothamist and New York Magazine
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Age of Authoritarianism Has Only Just Begun
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Inside Evan McMullin's 10 years undercover in the CIA
 

 
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